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I always wondered why I couldn't find for phrases like "foo.bar" on the SabNZBd-queue-page.

Now I found out why that is: SabNZBd is adding a zero-width space ( http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode ... /index.htm ) after every dot.

So if you got a download called "test.foo.bar.2014" and you are searching for "foo.b", Firefox and IE cannot find it. Apparently Chrome ignores the zero-width space and can find the phrase.

Proof: HTML-sourcecode of the queue-page viewed in a hex-editor:

http://i.imgur.com/jiTxICa.png
(E2808B is the hex for this character)

In the "History"-sections, searching for "foo.bar" would work fine though.

I just found the reason for the zero-width spaces: http://forums.sabnzbd.org/viewtopic.php?t=11042

There's been a lot of work put into Firefox since then, maybe that workaround isn't needed anymore?

The zero-width space was added to enable proper wrapping of long titles.
(Only in Queue, not in History)
Unfortunately the side-effect is that some browsers don't ignore it in searches.

In the next major release, the queue will have a built-in filter (like History already has).

OK, thanks.